OFF-LINE FORMAT
Functional Aspects of Intercultural Communication. Translation and Interpreting Issues
Institute of Foreign Languages, RUDN University, Moscow
November 26-27, 2026
10:00 am-6:00 pm
https://conferences-ifl.rudn.ru/
Deadline for abstract submission: November 15, 2026
Deadline for registration fee payment: November 25, 2026
Extended abstracts should be submitted by December 25, 2026
Conference Organizers: Institute of Foreign Languages of RUDN (Russia), Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), Higher Institute of Languages in Tunis, University of Carthage (Tunisia), Moscow State Linguistic University (Russia), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan), National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico), Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University named after B. N. Yeltsin (Kyrgyzstan), Erzia International Art Foundation (Russia), National Association for Applied Linguistics (NAAL), Union of Translators of Russia (UTR)
Goal of the Conference:
To reveal the diversity of functional aspects of intercultural communication within the process of world education integration and to focus on translation and interpreting issues in the context of contemporary society.
List of Key Issues to Be Discussed:
- Intercultural communication and linguistic identity
- The role of language in the formation of cultural identity
- Sociolinguistic aspects of globalisation
- Language policy and multilingualism in the modern world
2. Cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics
- Metaphor and figurative thinking in language
- Text perception and processing: neurolinguistic research
- Language and emotion: how linguistic structures convey feelings
3. Computational linguistics and digital technologies
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence
- Corpus linguistics and Big Data in language research
- Automatic text analysis: opportunities and limitations
4. Discourse analysis and pragmatics
- Political, media and scientific discourse
- Manipulative language strategies in communication
- Hypertextuality and digital discourse
5. Ecolinguistics and language in the era of global change
- Language and the environmental
- Terminology of sustainable
- Linguistic aspects of climate
6. Technologies in translation
- Neural networks and machine translation: a replacement or a tool?
- CAT systems and translation
- Audiovisual translation and localisation of software and video
7. Artistic translation: theory and practice
- Translation of poetry: balance between form and
- Adaptation of cultural realities in
- Author’s style and its transfer into another
8. Specialised translation
- Legal and medical translation: accuracy adaptation.
- Scientific and technical translation and terminological
- Subtitling and dubbing: linguocultural
9. Ethics and challenges of the modern translator
- The translator in the context of information
- Confidentiality and professional
- Problems of translation in multicultural
10. Interpreting in the age of digitalisation
- Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting: new
- Remote translation: advantages and disadvantages.
- Artificial intelligence in
- Lexical and phraseological space of language: from theory to practice
- Theoretical and methodological foundations of the field organization of lexical and phraseological space.
- Functioning of lexical and phraseological units in various types of discourse.
- Translation of lexical and phraseological units: interlingual asymmetry and pragmatic adaptation.
Conference languages: Russian, English.
Conference format: Offline. An online format is available only for international participants.
Abstract submission deadline is November 15, 2026.
Registration, applications for participation and publication are submitted on the website: https://conferences-ifl.rudn.ru/
Organisation fee: 4000 rubles (for NOPRIL and SPR members – 300 rubles).
For postgraduate students: 1000 roubles. The conference package (conference programme, abstracts of participants’ presentations; coffee and tea breaks) is included in the conference fee.
Participants without a presentation (attendees) pay an organisation fee of 3000 rubles.
Organisation fee payment’s deadline is November 25, 2026.
It is also planned to publish Conference Proceedings. All articles will be published in English.
For the Program must complete the “Application Form” on the conference website and to submit an abstract of 350 words in English excluding a bibliography. The Program is not indexed. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their presentations by November 20, 2026.
For the Conference Proceedings it is necessary to fill the “Application Form” on the conference website. In addition to the completed field with 350-word abstracts, it is necessary to attach a file (extended abstracts) of 350 + 2000 words, as well as a plagiarism report scan (minimum 75% originality). Extended abstracts must be submitted by December 25, 2026.
Abstracts and extended abstracts must be submitted in English only.
Conference Proceedings are indexed in the RSCI database. The editorial board of the collection reserves the right to reject the article if, according to the Anti-Plagiarism check, the originality is less than 75%, or the text contains fragments generated by artificial intelligence systems. The editorial board also reserves the right to competitively select abstracts and extended abstracts for publication.
Travel, accommodation, and meals for conference participants are covered by the sending institution.
We look forward for your participation in our conference!
Contact persons:
Natalia S. Erokhova,
Organizing and Program Committee,
tel. +7(495)787-38-03#2438, e-mail: erokhova-ns@rudn.ru
Natalia A. Akhrenova,
Organizing and Program Committee,
tel. +7(495)787-38-03#2439, e-mail: nakhrenova@mail.ru